POPE ON TWEETER

Pope Starts Personal Twitter Account 1 more image By GAIA PIANIGIANI and RACHEL DONADIO Published: December 04, 2012 Correction Appended VATICAN CITY - Now trending on Twitter: Pope Benedict XVI. On Monday, the Vatican announced that the 85-year-old pontiff would begin posting messages on Twitter next week under thehandle @pontifex, a term for pope that means bridge-builder in Latin. Within hours,he had more than 100,000 followers. Benedict is expected to hit"send" on his first post at a general audience at the Vatican on Dec. 12 - a response to questions aboutmatters of the faith that he is now accepting via the hashtag #askpontifex, officials said.